Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-25
AT THE INSTITUTE.
AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS DELIVERED BY
HON &. 4 WHITE.
The Making Of Characteristic Signs Which
Reveal the Inner Man-Featful
Influence of Habit

in the lecture room of the First Presbyte-
Tian church last night, the occasion being
lecture to the Teachers Institute by Hon.
E. E. White, Superintendent of the Gin
einnati Public Schools subject. ''Charac-
ter" Al s O'Clock sharp Superintendent
Anderson called the Institute 10 order, an
nouncing music, an instrumental solo by
Miss Anna Hess. After which Miss Lucy
Robinson delighted the audience with a
charming rendition of that beautiful song
that never grows old, 1.-THE Last Rose of
Summer" Miss Robinson was one of Sig
nor D'Auria's most promising pupils, and
her rich full voice shows careful and thor
oueh training.
In a few well chosen words Superintend-
ent Morgan introduced the speaker of the
evening. The fame of Prof. White, both
as educator and orator is national. His
address was as entertaining as it was in
structive The high expectations of the
audience were fully satisfied. Following
is synopsis of the lecture. Mr.. White
said:
"All life is dual. The tree throws out
its banner of leaf and blossoms because
there exists in it e-giying force. Nature
itself is but an effect, the visible manifes-
tation of that Infinite One, who is Himself
life. How true and beautiful the words of
the Christian poet: There lives and
breathes soul in all things, and that soul
is Cod So the soul has its dual being.
Its inner being is one of thinking, feeling
and enjoying; its outward is one of man
Hesitation and action. These, the inner
md outer life of the soul, make what we
term character aud conduct. They are in
separately united. A mans character makes
his conduct 1t is the source from which
flow all
THOSE OUTWARD MANIFESTATIONS
which go TO make up human action.
But character is not merely the primer
pie of the moral life, hut is also the result,
Every moral action gives not only Increased
llOIu' lDItt, Duy ~ lCuuClCl w ttCi
in tue same manner. These resultant ten
denotes determine the character of a mans
moral life. l have somewhere seen it
stated that if q key be placed upon white
paper, and put in sunlight and then placed
in darkness, the image OF the key will be
seen. So with lite's tracings of our souls,
not a thought or emotion is ever lost.
WHAT We are might is the resultant Of
what We have been. The roots Ot cur
present life run back under the soil Of our
past experience. aud touch every past emo
ton, and passion and feeling How it
would startle the living could they at one
view see every thought, feeling, purpose
aud aspiration Of life. Yet they are all
here. They are woven into our very be-
ing. Not al erasure has been made in our
life.
"My second point is, that mans real i'll
tluenCe and success flow from his indwell-
ing character. II was not the cOnqueror
of AuSterlitz that thrilled Europe and
played with kings 1t was the inner Ma
poleOn. The victor was the window
through which the inner man shOne forth,
1t il this inner man that was so mighty in
action. The Earl of Chatham always lett
the impression on his hearers that there
was always
SOMETHING IN FIREMAN
infinitely better than he said. 1t is the
man back OF speech that tells Ii is not
the deeds Of men that touch history, but
that which is back of them. This leads to
our point: That this inner man dwells in
no insCrutehle secresy. We DO not pass
through this world exlled. We are known
by Others better than we dare believe. The
soul tells its tale. 1t speaks it's words,
and the world hears and knows. Oar life
puts out it's sign, and the Interpretation OF
that sign is the means by which the sOnl
is revealed.
LET us consider some Of these trll-tal
signs.
First is the temper, that net work of
nerves that when we least expect 1t, pulls
off our mask and reveals us. There is no
secret safe entrusted to hasty temper
The soul is again revealed in the human
face. 1t is the open show board oil the
life When new joy floods our soul,
how it eliminates the c0untenance. The
eye is the open window of the heart,
camera lucida that catches every emotion
from within and reveals them to the
world Moreover tue eye is honest. 1t
has q look of confidence, sunshine for
10y and a cloud for sorrow. And all this
| language has no counterfeit. The face
not only tells lite story, but tells it in an
universal language that all can read. 1t
is the beauty ofthe story that makes the
face beautiful.
Another Of these life revelations in the
human voice The voce has tone for
every thought, aud emotion of the human
heart. Like the .Eolian Tyre, it is the
very breathing of the spirit within. II
there be
HONESTY AND PURITY,
within the voice will reveal it. There is
divine harmony in that voice to which
divine love gives utterance. If there be
moral deformity ia the heart, it will reveal
itself in the voice.
Another of these spirit reyealeTs is the
laugh. Carlyle rays, that laughter is the
cypher key, with which we deeper the
whole man. Sterne has said MAN is not
only the merriest Of creatures, but he is
the only being in The universe, that
laughs. There IL character in q laugh,
How many times in travelling have the
tones OF a laugh revealed the person who
laughs.
THE smile, too, like the laugh, has
character in it. 4 man may smile and
smile, and be villain, but that is only a
surface smile.
Our MANNERS are great rcvealers of our
character. Manners have heen defined, as
the spirit acting ont in form. Our man
ners speak our life. Doubtless there are
artificial manners, but only in artificial
persons. The principle that rules the life
will make the manners Oar manners in
dicate our heart, aud unerringly they tell
more than we dare think.
."NOw need not say that language in
dicates the inner man. The words have
been called soul measures. But the value
of the words we use depends upon the soul
we have to put in it. For words are the
measures OF our life, and they have weight
when We have weight The words we use
Ia IL. TIN